Today's leading stories include funding to catch paedophiles operating online, a body scanner trial aimed at detecting weapons and the sale of knives online. Online child sexual exploitation Artificial intelligence could be used to help catch paedophiles operating on the …

Today's top media stories include a petition on knife crime, proposals for a fast-track visa route for scientists and figures on incidents attended by fire and rescue services. Knife crime The Mirror splash on a petition being delivered to Downing …

This fact sheet was updated on 23 April 2020. We are recruiting 20,000 new police officers over the next three years. Up to 6,000 additional officers have been allocated in the first wave and will be shared among the 43 …

Today's Home Office media stories include new anti-knife crime school lessons and an update on funding for Operation Grange. New anti-knife crime lessons The Guardian, Mirror and Daily Mail report that pupils in schools in England will be given additional …

Today's Home Office media stories include crime outcomes and violent crime. Violent crime There are various articles in papers today on the issue of crime outcomes and violent crime. The Express leads with an article noting that millions of crime victims …

Today's top Home Office story is a BBC report on the number of knife crime fatalities this year. Knife deaths in 2019 BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning carried news that the number of fatal stabbings in the UK …

Today's Home Office stories include a funding boost for police to tackle knife crime, and post-Brexit immigration proposals. Funding for Met to combat knife crime The Evening Standard reports that the Met was today given a multi-million-pound boost to help …

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Home Office in the media is the Home Office's blog on the latest topical home affairs issues. It features a review of leading media stories, responses to breaking news, rebuttal to inaccurate reports, and ministerial comment.